http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/categories/flextime/p2/feed.rss Thu, 23 May 13 05:19:14 -0400 FlexTime - Red Sweater Forums en-CA http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/46/having-some-trouble-at-finish-cues-not-working- Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:38:30 -0400 46@/forums/discussions
The program looks great, but I'm having some trouble (perhaps it's a misunderstanding on my part). I've set up several routines with both "At Start" and "At Finish" cues, but none of the "At Finish" cues are ever performed. For example, here is a sample routine:

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Act 1 (30sec)
At Start: Show Text "TEXT1"
At Finish: Play Sound "Purr"
Act 2 (30sec)
At Start: Play Sound "Basso"
At Finish: Play Sound "Sosumi"
Act 3 (30sec)
At Start: Play Sound "Purr"
At Finish: Show Text "TEXT2"
Act 4 (30sec)
At Start: Play Sound "Glass"
At Finish: Play Sound "Submarine"
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Only the "At Start" cues (whether sound or text) work - the finish cues are never seen or heard.

Am I just missing something? I'm using Version 1.0.4 (202) in unregistered demo mode on Mac OS 10.4.7 (dual G5).

Thanks!
Jeff]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/45/run-script-problem Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:38:57 -0400 45@/forums/discussions http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/24/flextime-growl-a-gentle-way-to-end-procrastination/) to work properly. It works great when I set it up and select the script. However, after I close FlexTime and open my (saved) file again, the script is not invoked even though the script name is in the script drop-down. The only way I can get it to work again is to "Choose script" once more. Seems like FlexTime doesn't remember the path to the script or something.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/39/is-there-any-way-to-find-out-how-much-time-has-elapsed Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:29:41 -0400 39@/forums/discussions
I've been able to work around this using script properties, but that's kind of fragile -- if I have to reset the document or something else that prevents the counter from being reset, I have to do it by hand. The goal here is to pop up a notification a certain number of times during the activity to let me know how much time is left. Here's the script I'm using.

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property timesToFire : 10
property timesFired : 0

using terms from application "FlexTime"
on HandleFlexTimeCue(myDocument, myRoutine)

if timesFired is not equal to timesToFire then
set timesFired to timesFired + 1
else
set timesFired to 0
end if


set activityName to name of myRoutine
set timeUnits to (base unit of myRoutine as string)
set timeToRun to numeric duration of myRoutine as integer

set timeSlice to timeToRun / timesToFire

set timeLeft to (timeToRun - (timesFired * timeSlice))

set myMessage to "Time left for " & activityName & ":
" & timeLeft & " " & (timeUnits as string) & ""

display message myMessage at screen position top left dismissing after delay 1
end HandleFlexTimeCue
end using terms from

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By the way, the using terms from business was the only way I was able to get the dang thing to compile on 10.4.7 in Script Editor. Am I missing something there?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/40/duration-ui-a-little-misleading Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:51:43 -0400 40@/forums/discussions
I have to admit I'm not sure what, if anything, should be done about this. I'm inclined to say the arrows shouldn't be there if you're allowing more free numeric input, but that's probably silly. I just can't think of another instance where arrows and decimal points have gone together. Failing memory, perhaps.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/36/flextime-1-0-and-default-folder-x-3-0-1 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:03:44 -0400 36@/forums/discussions
(Other than that, looks like a nice application.)]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/35/how-do-you-use-flextime Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:35:55 -0400 35@/forums/discussions
The first thing I'm trying this for is timing myself doing drumming exercises, where I exercise each hand for X minutes with X seconds rest in between. I have to admit that I'm not sure what I would use this for, because the intervals are not very long, and I have to use a metronome in addition to this anyway.

It's so clean and nice that I'd like to find more to do with it, but I need more ideas than the example routines folder.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/34/playying-with-flextime Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:13:23 -0400 34@/forums/discussions
I was looking at FlexTime and had the following observations:

• I did not like having to click of a "Show Text" message in ordr to dismiss it. I instead ended up using the "at intervals:" field specifying it to do nothing at every 5 seconds (interval = Duration/5 sec). That dismisses the dialog but require that I perform unwelcomed calculations. Maybe this could be addressed by having a "dismiss after:" field accompanying the "Show Text" value.

• A "duplicate" menu item should be added even though you can "Option+Drag" them if the cue viewer.

• It would be nice if we could set start Date/Time for any given routine.

• By the same token, it would also be nice to have a "Routine manager" of sort where we could check/uncheck routines that needs to be running.

I realize that this might not be what you wanted to do at the beginning and I apologize if these requests "brush you" the wrong way, but I believe you might be onto something here and adding somekind of "cron" capability would greatly broaden your target audience.

Keep up the good work!

Michel]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/33/welcome-flextime-users Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:10:04 -0400 33@/forums/discussions
Daniel Jalkut
Red Sweater Software]]>